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" And, just before the confines of the wood, The gliding Lethe leads her silent flood. About the boughs an airy nation flew, Thick as the humming bees, that hunt the golden dew In summer's heat; on tops of lilies feed, And creep within their bells, to suck... "
The Oriental Herald - Page 468
1826
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The Art of English Poetry Containing: Rules for making verses. A collection ...

Edward Bysshe - English language - 1710 - 620 pages
...haunt the golden Dew ; In Summer's Heat on Tops of Lillies feed, And creep within their Bells to fuck the balmy Seed. The winged Army roams the Fields around; The Rivers and the Rocks remurmur to the Sound. Dryd. Virg. Thus when the Swain, within a hollow Rock, Invades the Bees with fuffocating Smoke; They...
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The Complete Art of Poetry: In Six Parts, I. Of the Nature, Use ..., Volume 2

Charles Gildon - Criticism - 1718 - 490 pages
...haunt the golden Dew ; In Summer's Heat on Tops of Lillies feed, And creep within their Bells to fuck the balmy Seed. The winged Army roams the Fields around...; The Rivers and the Rocks remurmur to the Sound. Thus when the Swain, within a hollow Rock, Invades the Bees with fuffocating Smoke ; They tun around,...
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The Works of Virgil, Volume 2

Virgil - Agriculture - 1803 - 408 pages
...flew, Thick as the humming bees, that hunt the golden dew In summer's heat; on tops of lilies feed, 960 And creep within their bells, to suck the balmy seed : The winged army roams the field around; The rivers and the rocks remurmur to the sound. .<Eneas wond'ring stood, then ask'd the...
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The works of Virgil, tr. into Engl. verse by mr. Dryden. Carey, Volume 3

Publius Vergilius Maro - 1806 - 328 pages
...Thick as the humming bees, that hunt the golden dew In summer's heat ; on tops of lilies feed, 960 And creep within their bells, to suck the balmy seed : The winged army roams the field around ; The rivers and the rocks remurmur to the sound. .ffineas wond'ring stood, then ask'd...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected ...

John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 484 pages
...airy nation flew, ' :>[• . Thick as the humming bees, that hunt the golden dew In summer's heat ; on tops of lilies feed, And creep within their bells,...to suck the balmy seed : The winged army roams the field around • The rivers and the rocks remurmur to the sound. ./Eneas wondering stood, then asked...
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The Works of John Dryden Now First Collected ...

John Dryden - 1808 - 504 pages
...boughs an airy nation flew, Thick as the humming bees, that hunt the golden dew In summer's heat ; on tops of lilies feed, And creep within their bells,...to suck the balmy seed : The winged army roams the field around ; The rivers and the rocks remurmur to the sound, .tineas wondering stood, then asked...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes ..., Volume 14

John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...boughs an airy nation flew, Thick as the humming bees, that hunt the golden dew In summer's heat ; ou tops of lilies feed, And creep within their bells,...to suck the balmy seed : The winged army roams the field around ; The rivers and the rocks remurmur to the sound. jEneas wondering stood, then asked the...
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The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets, Volume 11, Parts 3-4

Greek literature - 1813 - 420 pages
...bough; an airy nation flew, Thick as the humming bees, that hunt the golden dew In summer's heat ; on tops of lilies feed, And creep within their bells, to suck the bahuy seed : The winged army roams the field around ; The rivers and the rocks remurmur to the sound....
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The Works of Virgil, Translated Into English Verse, by John Dryden ..., Volume 2

Virgil - 1819 - 404 pages
...boughs an airy nation flew, Thick as the humming bees, that hunt the golden dew In summer's heat ; on tops of lilies feed, And creep within their bells,...* The rivers and the rocks remurmur to the sound. j£neas wond'ring stood, then ask'd the cause, Which to the stream the crowding people draws. Then...
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 14

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 502 pages
...the boughs an airy nation flew, Thick as the huming bees, that hunt the golden dew In summer's heat ; on tops of lilies feed, And creep within their bells,...to suck the balmy seed; The winged army roams the field around ; The rivers and the rocks remurmur to the sound. jE,neas wondering stood, then ask'd...
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